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SCOTUS Denies Cert in Thaler – The Thorny Issue of AI Inventorship

LexBlog IP

History suggests the law will split inventorship down the middle and grant rights to those “portions” of an invention or copyrightable work that were created by a human, and avoid granting protection to the “portions” that were AI-generated. Copyright law does this well with the protection of derivative works.

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Never too Late: If you missed the IPKat last week!

The IPKat

Copyright Kateryna Militsyna and Liubov Maidanyk unpacked the major legislative changes brought by the new Ukrainian Law on Copyright and Related Rights , adopted in December 2022. This phenomenon illustrates the commercial potential of derivative works within the copyright system.

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Intellectual Property: What Are the Differences between Patent, Trademark, and Copyright?

More Than Your Mark

Only the copyright owner has the right to make copies, distribute copies, perform, display, or make derivative works of the copyrighted work. A copyright lasts for the life of the author plus 70 years (for works made for hire, 95 years from when they are first published). appeared first on Patent Law Blog.

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What are the intellectual property rights for startups?

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

Under copyright protection, startups have the exclusive right to reproduce their works and distribute them to the public. Copyrights also provide startups with the authority to create derivative works based on their original creations. This means that no one else can copy or distribute their creations without permission.

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WIPIP Concurrent Session #3: Copyright Doctrine

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Lemley: Patent law uses the actual license amount; there’s no reason to use a multiplier when we actually know. But that’s supposedly not the law we have, and also brings in punitive damages constitutional jurisprudence. Policy question: do you want to make it punitive to punish not transacting?

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WHAT, IN THE NAME OF GOD, …?: Intellectual Property Rights In Holy Names, Sacred Words, & Other Aspects of Creation

LexBlog IP

To avoid these issues, religious groups can implement copyright law to prevent all impermissible copying and distribution of the religious works and any derivative works, and therefore maintaining their doctrinal purity. Should one be given a patent to re-create the previously created? ” Id. at 138-139.

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WIPIP session 2: ™ Doctrine, © Fair Use

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Counterclaim alleged that WF infringed by reproducing, publicly displaying, commercially licensing, and distributing the image, and by incorporating the photo into unauthorized derivative works. Jeremy Sheff: Knowledge question comes up in patent law: do you have to know that there will be use or that the use will be actionable?